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2010 Spring Central Section Meeting
St. Paul, MN, April 10-11, 2010 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1058

Associate secretaries:
Georgia Benkart, AMS benkart@math.wisc.edu

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Special Session on Physical Knotting and Linking and its Applications

• Saturday April 10, 2010, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Physical Knotting and Linking and its Applications, I
  Room 213, Humanities Building
  Organizers:
  Eric Rawdon, University of St. Thomas ejrawdon@stthomas.edu
  Yuanan Diao, University of North Carolina at Charlotte yuanandiao@uncc.edu
  Claus Ernst, Western Kentucky University claus.ernst@wku.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Are large codimension 2 spheres knotted with high probability?
    De Witt Sumners*, Florida State University
    (1058-57-111)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Knotted 2-spheres in tubes in $Z^4$.
    Stu Whittington*, University of Toronto
    (1058-57-101)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Knotting statistics after a local strand passage in self-avoiding polygons on $\mathbb{Z}^3$.
    Chris Soteros*, University of Saskatchewan
    Michael Szafron, University of Saskatchewan
    (1058-82-262)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Mechanics and Energetics of DNA Loops in Complex Nucleoprotein Assemblies.
    Stephen D Levene*, University of Texas at Dallas
    (1058-92-211)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Laundry Embedded Surfaces and Protein Folding.
    Victor A Nicholson*, Kent State University
    (1058-57-243)
• Saturday April 10, 2010, 2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Physical Knotting and Linking and its Applications, II
  Room 213, Humanities Building
  Organizers:
  Eric Rawdon, University of St. Thomas ejrawdon@stthomas.edu
  Yuanan Diao, University of North Carolina at Charlotte yuanandiao@uncc.edu
  Claus Ernst, Western Kentucky University claus.ernst@wku.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Minimal step number of cubic lattice knots in thin slabs.
    Robert G. Scharein*, San Francisco State University
    (1058-55-289)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    DNA unknotting, topoisomerases and bacteriophages.
    Mariel Vazquez*, San Francisco State University
    Javier Arsuaga, San Francisco State University
    Robert Scharein, San Francisco State Unviersity
    (1058-92-281)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    DNA knotting in bacteriophage spooling like conformations.
    Javier Arsuaga*, San Francisco State University
    Yuanan Diao, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
    (1058-92-221)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Tangle analysis of protein-DNA complexes.
    Isabel K. Darcy*, University of Iowa
    (1058-92-93)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On the square writhe of a minimal alternating knot diagram.
    Yuanan Diao, UNCC
    Claus Ernst*, WKU
    Uta Ziegler, WKU
    (1058-57-173)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    A Topological Model of Protein-Mediated Localized DNA Transformations.
    Dorothy Buck*, Imperial College London
    Ken Baker, University of Miami
    Andrew Lobb, MSRI and SUNY-Stony Brook
    (1058-57-39)
• Sunday April 11, 2010, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Physical Knotting and Linking and its Applications, III
  Room 213, Humanities Building
  Organizers:
  Eric Rawdon, University of St. Thomas ejrawdon@stthomas.edu
  Yuanan Diao, University of North Carolina at Charlotte yuanandiao@uncc.edu
  Claus Ernst, Western Kentucky University claus.ernst@wku.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Intrinsic symmetries of knots and links.
    Jason Cantarella, University of Georgia
    Jason Parsley*, Wake Forest University
    (1058-57-277)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On the Ropelength of Alternating Conformations.
    R Trapp*, Cal State San Bernardino
    S. Sadjadi, SUNY Buffalo
    J. Alley, University of Nebraska
    C. Mathes, Willamette University
    (1058-57-201)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Lessons from the \texttt{ridgerunner} collection of tight knots.
    Jason Cantarella*, University of Georgia
    Ted Ashton, None.
    Michael Piatek, University of Washington
    Eric Rawdon, University of St. Thomas
    (1058-53-259)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Flat Ribbon Links in $\mathbb{R}^2$.
    Elizabeth Denne*, Smith College
    John M Sullivan, TU Berlin
    Nancy Wrinkle, Northeastern Illinois University
    (1058-57-106)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Knots and Links as Collections of Annuli with Minimal Modulus.
    Robert B. Kusner*, GANG & Math: University of Massachusetts at Amherst
    (1058-53-127)
• Sunday April 11, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Physical Knotting and Linking and its Applications, IV
  Room 213, Humanities Building
  Organizers:
  Eric Rawdon, University of St. Thomas ejrawdon@stthomas.edu
  Yuanan Diao, University of North Carolina at Charlotte yuanandiao@uncc.edu
  Claus Ernst, Western Kentucky University claus.ernst@wku.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Transport properties of knotted polymers and DNA.
    Marc L. Mansfield*, Dept. of Chemistry, Chemical Biology, and Biomedical Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology
    (1058-82-213)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Supercoiled DNA minicircles.
    Lynn Zechiedrich*, Baylor College of Medicine
    Jonathan M. Fogg, Baylor College of Medicine
    Daniel J. Catanese, Jr., Baylor College of Medicine
    Donald Schrock, University of Texas M.D. Anderson
    Brian Gilbert, Baylor College of Medicine
    Nianxi Zhao, Methodist Hospital
    Youli Zu, Methodist Hospital
    (1058-92-77)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Physical Knots.
    Thomas W Kephart*, Vanderbilt University
    (1058-51-44)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The linking number and writhe of uniform random walks and polygons in confined spaces.
    Kenneth C Millett*, University of California, Santa Barbara
    E. Panagiotou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
    S. Lambropoulou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
    (1058-57-98)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Using tangling to distinguish polymer packing.
    Jonathan K Simon*, Department of Mathematics, University of Iowa
    Eric J Rawdon, Department of Mathematics, University of St. Thomas
    Robert G Scharein, Hypnagogic Software
    (1058-82-179)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Symmetry-breaking in cumulative measures of shapes of polymer models.
    Kenneth C. Millett, University of California Santa Barbara
    Eric J. Rawdon*, University of Saint Thomas
    Andrzej Stasiak, University of Lausanne
    Vy Tran, University of Saint Thomas
    (1058-57-187)

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